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The CED (Council of European Dentists) nem támogatja az osztott képzést a fogorvosképzésben, amit egyes országok az ADEE ( Association of Dental Education in Europe) -Europai Fogorvosképzési Társaságban javasoltak. Határozottan kiáll amellett, hogy a fogorvosképzés csak a hagyományos osztatlan formában folyhat, és sehol nem adható ki olyan BsC ( Bachelor-Master-Doctor) fokozat, amely valamilyen csökkentebb értékű fogász képesítést nyújtana.

Professor Winfried Harzer
President of ADEE
Brussels, 28 July 2010

Dear Professor Harzer,

The Council of European Dentists (CED), as a representative organisation of European practising dentists, would like to comment on the document "Curriculum structure, content, learning and assessment in European undergraduate dental education", which was prepared by ADEE's Task Force II for adoption at your annual meeting in August 2010. The CED would like to commend ADEE for its work on the curriculum for the European undergraduate dental education; however, we would like to provide some further comments on specific recommendations contained in the document.
Introduction
The CED would suggest a change in wording in the introduction to the document. Second sentence in the first paragraph of the introduction on page 1 would in our opinion more accurately read: "Such convergence allows for mutual recognition of undergraduate studies and ECTS from EU dental schools for purposes of free movement of dental students between dental schools."
Mutual recognition of qualifications, free movement of dentists and appropriate standards of oral healthcare across the EU are guaranteed by the relevant parts of Directive 2005/36/EC, as well as by education and qualifications acquired after the five-year undergraduate study of dentistry. It would therefore be misleading to single out convergence of undergraduate dental education.
Dental education and Bologna system The CED as a matter of principle strongly recommends exclusion of dental education from the Bologna 3-5-8 model (Bachelor-Master-Doctor). Dental education should continue to be subject to requirements as defined in Directive 2005/36/EC on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications which implicitly prohibit the introduction of a Bachelor's degree in dentistry with access to the labour market. The CED resolutely supports maintaining the requirement for any dental practitioner to hold a qualification attesting a complete period of dental training which comprises "at least a five-year full-time course of theoretical and practical instruction given in a university." The CED insists on maintaining this requirement in the interest of patient safety and high quality of dental care. The CED is of the opinion that the Bologna process, including the ECTS, is a good system for academic recognition, harmonisation of basic training and free movement of students in the European Union, all of which we strongly support. However, the CED strongly recommends differentiation between academic recognition, allowing for free movement of students, and professional recognition, allowing for free movement of dentists. In cases where five-year dental education would be split into Bachelor's and Master's degrees, we agree with ADEE that "a Bachelor's degree would be an academic award only and it would not qualify the graduate to engage in the practise of dentistry in any form" (page 2 of the document). The CED would also like to suggest to ADEE to change recommendation nr. 4 on page 5 which currently reads: "Arrangements should exist to recognise the successful completion of three years of the five year programme as a general bachelor's degree, although this emphatically does not lead to the opportunity for registration as a dentist or any oral healthcare professional." to the following: "If dental schools decide to implement the option of awarding a general academic bachelor's degree upon the successful completion of three years of the five year programme, this emphatically does not lead to the opportunity for registration as a dentist or any other healthcare professional". The CED is opposed to actively encouraging splitting of the five year dental education, for reasons explained above. For the same reasons we do not agree with encouraging dental schools to implement a Master's degree in dentistry.

Vocational training
The CED does not agree with the recommendation that EU Chief Dental Officers should be engaged towards harmonisation of requirements for vocational training (page 2). We strongly feel that the decision on the desirability of harmonisation, as well as potential work towards harmonisation is the responsibility of the dental profession, represented by the CED.

Number of working hours in a five year full time study programme In connection to recommendation nr. 1 on page 3 of Appendix I (European Credit Transfer System - ECTS) which reads "Schools are recommended to reach consensus on the amount of workload that is related to 1 ECTS" the CED would like to note that it supports introducing the requirement for the five year full time study programme of dentistry to consist of at least 5500 study hours in Directive 2005/36/EC. The minimum number of ECTS for a full-time five-year study of dentistry should be 360.

Sincerely,
Dr Wolfgang Doneus
CED President